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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The synergistic interplay among land use transition, rural revitalization, and sustainable development is critical for harmonizing human‐land‐economic systems. Understanding their diverse coupling pathways is key to resolving human‐land conflicts and advancing sustainable rural development in mountainous regions. However, existing research has
Luanyu Zhou +10 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digitalisation is widely framed as a route to more efficient and participatory public administration. In authoritarian settings, however, digital governance often works less as administrative improvement than as a technopolitical instrument for managing dissent and insulating policy from contestation.
Arash Beidollahkhani
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Modernization in developing countries such as China has long been unsustainable. As a result, China has set the goal of achieving sustainable modernization characterized by harmony between humanity and nature.
Siyu Liu +5 more
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Clarifying Public Policy for Stronger Public Administration in Development
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public policy is ubiquitous, yet its meaning is often unclear. This ambiguity is not just conceptual. Because policy work is a large part of what public administrations do, how we define policy shapes how we structure and organize our administrative mechanisms.
Matt Andrews
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Competing Paths to Development: The China Model in Kenya through a Modernization Theory Lens [PDF]
The rise of China as a major development actor in Africa presents a significant challenge to traditional Western-dominated paradigms. This article uses Modernization Theory as an analytical framework to examine China’s engagement in Kenya, primarily ...
Vivian Nkirote Kaimenyi, Huang Dengxue
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 7, 9, 12, and 13, centered on affordable clean energy, industrial innovation, responsible production, and climate action, has gained momentum across Latin American economies. However, the region continues to face the dual challenge of achieving economic growth while mitigating rising carbon ...
Agyemang Kwasi Sampene +2 more
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Benefit Payment Costs of Unemployment Insurance Modernization: Estimates Based on Kentucky Administrative Data [PDF]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 provided financial incentives for UI modernization. The financial incentive is the state share of $7 billion available nationwide.
Christopher J. O'Leary
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